Is Your Global Maternity Billing Capturing Every Reimbursable Service?

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Global maternity billing can make OB-GYN reimbursement look simpler than it actually is. A practice may bill a global maternity package and assume that most pregnancy-related services are automatically covered under one payment. But global maternity billing has specific rules about what is included, what may be separately reportable, and what requires careful documentation. That creates an important revenue-cycle question: Is your practice capturing every service that is actually reimbursable, while correctly keeping bundled services inside the global package? The answer requires more than checking whether the global maternity claim was accepted. It requires reviewing the entire pregnancy episode, including antepartum services, delivery, postpartum care, additional procedures, high-risk services, diagnostics, payer requirements, and documentation. What Does Global Maternity Billing Actually Include? Global obstetric codes can cover a broad package of services. For example, total obstet...

The Struggle of Primary Care Physicians with Dynamic Medical Billing Rules

 

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Medical Billing a Challenge for Struggling Primary Care Practices

Medical billing is a complex process and it’s always been a reason for the struggle of primary care physicians. In addition, their practice is often overwhelmed with constantly changing information, including protocols and billing codes which makes the situation more challenging.

When the covid-19 pandemic strains the U.S. healthcare system, primary care physicians were working to educate their patients, employ safety protocols, and handle large volumes of calls. This large volume of calls is creating administrative hurdles and operational challenges. Hence in response, many primary care practices are making changes to their medical billing processes to accommodate new patient needs.

The recent release of the Medicare physician fee schedule final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) contains new hope for struggling primary care physicians and you will get to know about it in the following brief.

Add-on Code G2211

The CMS feels the need to compensate physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals for the inherent complexity of primary care and other office visits hence CMS is moving forward with add-on code G2211.

You may separately list this add-on code in addition to office/outpatient (E/M) visits for new or established patients (i.e. codes 99202-99215). Also, you can use this code even when the E/M visit is done via telehealth as this code is permanently added to the Medicare telehealth list by CMS. One important point you need to consider here is the code’s Medicare payment allowance will be approximately $15.88, but will vary geographically.

To know more about the struggle of primary care physicians with dynamic billing rules and examples that can help you to understand, click here: https://bit.ly/3ruoVyY Contact us at info@medicalbillersandcoders.com/ 888-357-3226.

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